Can someone answer my <h> tag question please?

by andyrandall Banned

Posted: 13 years ago 12 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi

So im still working on my first website and i have a static home page and then all my other post are posted on one page.

So im giving the article title on the home page the <h1> tag, the title contains my main keyword that i want to target for adsense.

My first question is am i correct to <h1> the whole title or do i need to tag the persific keywords im targeting within the title?

and for the rest of my post im also using to target adsense should i also us the <h1> tag or is it the <h2> tag?

Thanks for any Help

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UMS 13 years ago

Your whole title should go into the h1 tags.

For the rest of the article, use a mixture of bold, underline, italics, h2 and h3 tags.
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- andyrandall Banned 13 years ago
  
  Ok Thanks peter i just wanted to clear that up.
  
  also for all my other posts on my blog should i h1 tag the title for them aswell or sould i htag the rest of the article titles
  
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UMS 13 years ago

You should use h1 tags for all your post/page titles.
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Chris Cole 13 years ago

Andy,

You should also ensure your theme does not automatically add your title into a H1 tag
(some themes do this). If it does then you could end up with two H1 tags for every page.
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- andyrandall Banned 13 years ago
  
  Ok thanks for clarifying that pete and also thanks for the tip chris im going to double check that now
  
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- andyrandall Banned 13 years ago
  
  Anytips on how to check if the theme is doing that chris?
  
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  PPC-Coach 13 years ago
  
  I'm not Chris, but you'll see it when you preview your post. You'll see the title twice if you added your own h1 tag to the post.
  
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  andyrandall Banned 13 years ago
  
  Also ppc the mere mention of css scares me lol.
  
  Im just teaching myself html at the moment and as im going along im starting to realise im going to have to start learning some basic css for the future
  
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  Sojourn 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by andyrandall
  
  Anytips on how to check if the theme is doing that chris?
  
  Andy - I always check/modify any theme I use to make sure that each page/post has its own H1 title and that the site name (which is usually my main keyword) is in H1 on the home page but H2 on any other page or post.
  
  Here's how to check what your theme is doing:
  
  Bring up your home page (static page, in your case).
  
  Right-click anywhere on your browser to bring up a set of browser options.
  
  Click on the option that says View Source (which might also be called View Page Source, Page Source). This shows you the visible code behind any web page. This usually comes up as a new window.
  
  Go to the page source window and click on Edit in the toolbar.
  
  Click on Find to bring up a search bar in the bottom of your browser.
  
  Type 'H1' into the search bar and search for the first instance of H1. Make a note of the phrase right after that instance. Is it your site title, the page title, or something else?
  
  Click on Next in the search bar to find the next instance of H1. This should be the closing tag for the phrase you found in step 6.
  
  Click on Next in the search bar to find any other instances of H1. According to most articles I've read, each page should only have one H1 title.
  
  Repeat the exercise looking for where H2 titles can be found on your home page.
  
  After you've checked your home page, bring up a Single Page of your site and do the same exercise and then a Single Post of your site and do the same.
  
  Any of the following findings should be fixed:
  
  No H1 title
  
  Multiple H1 titles on any page type
  
  No H2 titles on any page type
  
  The same H1 title on every page/post of your site
  
  Checking for what's going on with your theme is the easy part. The tricky thing is completing the fixes because they can require changes to several php files and your css stylesheet.
  
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  andyrandall Banned 13 years ago
  
  Hi Sojourn
  
  Thanks for taking the time for that indepth explantion thats really cleared things up and going to help me for the future.
  
  But your right that im going to have trouble fixing alot of faults because my php is just copy and paste at the moment unfortunatly.
  
  But ive got html, php, css and god knows what else to learn but i only launched this first website just over a month ago and im getting 200 uv a day.
  
  so its a start. Im trying to find good ctr ad placements at the moment but all my clicks seem to be like 1p - 5p cpc when they should be alot higher than that for the phrases im targeting. (40 - 90p) id be happy with just 20p cpc but i got 7 clicks on a link unit the other day and each one was 1p cpc which gutted me! even if it had been 20p cpc that would of been £1.40 instead of 7p.
  
  Im thinking its because ive got 6 ads on each page and the cpc is being split between all 6 ads if you get my thinking. But maybe thats aload of rubbish.
  
  I might start another thread to chat about that with some experienced warriors.
  
  Thanks again
  
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PPC-Coach 13 years ago

You can also style the h1 tag so it's not so big. You can do so using some basic CSS.
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Sojourn 13 years ago

Andy - Just over two years ago I hadn't even heard of Wordpress. Copy and paste HTML, CSS, and PHP are still my favorite strategies. You'll get there.

There are some online guides that will walk you through making these kinds of changes but a lot depends on your particular theme. If there's a support forum for your theme, search there first for information on making changes for the H1/H2 titles.

You can use the View Source check when analyzing new themes, too. Just run the above steps when viewing the demo. Sometimes demos are in frames or pop-ups so that won't always work but it's one method of getting good on-page SEO when you're not yet ready to tackle modifying php & css files.

I'd give you a recommendation but I've used the same theme for awhile now because I know what to tweak each time so I haven't analyzed newer themes recently. Maybe someone could suggest a good free, WordPress theme that handles H1/H2 titles well?

Good luck!

Erica
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